Logical tools for handling change in agent-based systems
Gabbay, Dov M.
Schlechta, Karl
Agents act on the basis of their beliefs and these beliefs change as they interact with other agents. In this book the authors propose and explain general logical tools for handling change. These tools include preferential reasoning,theory revision, and reasoning in inheritance systems, and the authors use these tools to examine nonmonotonic logic, deontic logic, counterfactuals, modallogic, intuitionistic logic, and temporal logic. This book will be of benefitto researchers engaged with artificial intelligence, and in particular agents, multiagent systems and nonmonotonic logic. In this book the authors propose and explain general logical tools for handling change. INDICE: Introduction and Motivation.- A Discussion of Concepts.- Introduction to Representation Problems.- Preferential Structures.- Higher PreferentialStructures.- Hierarchical Conditionals.- Update.- Deontic Logic.- Theory Revision.- An Analysis of Defeasible Inheritance Systems.- Argumentation.- References.- Index.
- ISBN: 978-3-642-04406-9
- Editorial: Springer
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 280
- Fecha Publicación: 30/11/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés